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| Hi I have begun walking down the lego modelling and raytracing path. I am modelling up a few items in LEOCAD, and I would like to render them. I have installed POVRAY and require the converting files. Q. Am I correct in needing the L2P.exe (LGEO (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) You can choose wether you want to use L2P and the LGEO library (download from eg. www.ldraw.org) _or_ L3P (LGEO and L3P can be combined, but I wouldn't suggest this to a newbie.). L2P and L3P are not related, but the names are a bit confusing, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| "Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:qrdr981mcp5.fsf....uio.no... (...) Yeah...what Fredrik said :) One of the things that I should put on my to-do-before-leaving-for-Boston list is at least getting started on a new (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) No, LeoCAD doesn't need any external programs to save POV files but if you have LGEO installed, it can use it to create higher quality renderings (L2P.exe is never used, everything is done internally). I'd recommend you to have LGEO, as each (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I know that L3lab gives warning about the feature being untested, when you export to povray from it, but I've used it a lot of times, with expected results everytime, and it is far easier to use than l3p if you're not that familiar with shell (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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